{"id":695593,"date":"2026-05-10T22:33:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:33:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/695593\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T22:33:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T22:33:18","slug":"clemens-and-rojas-lead-twins-to-5-4-victory-over-guardians-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/695593\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemens and Rojas lead Twins to 5-4 victory over Guardians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Kody Clemens had three hits and Kendry Rojas earned his first major league win with a strong outing in relief as the Minnesota Twins held off the Cleveland Guardians 5-4 on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks Lee hit a tiebreaking single in a four-run fifth inning for the Twins, who took two of three in the series from their AL Central rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Guardians manager Stephen Vogt was sent home hours before the first pitch due to lingering respiratory issues. Tony Arnerich filled in as acting manager.<\/p>\n<p>Making his second career appearance, Rojas (1-0) struck out five and walked three over 3 1\/3 innings. He allowed one run and five hits.<\/p>\n<p>The 23-year-old left-hander from Cuba entered to begin the second inning after opener Andrew Morris worked a 1-2-3 first.<\/p>\n<p>Yoendrys G\u00f3mez pitched a perfect ninth for his third big league save and second this season.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Brayan Rocchio went 4 for 4 and scored twice for Cleveland, setting a career high for hits. Gavin Williams (5-3) gave up five runs and 10 hits in six innings. He struck out six and walked one.<\/p>\n<p>Clemens doubled and scored on a wild pitch to give the Twins a 1-0 lead in the third. Jos\u00e9 Ram\u00edrez tied it in the bottom half with an RBI single that scored Rocchio.<\/p>\n<p>Clemens scored on Lee&#8217;s single in the fifth to put Minnesota back in front. Royce Lewis had an RBI double before Josh Bell and Austin Martin each added a run-scoring single to make it 5-1.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Cleveland got RBI singles from Angel Mart\u00ednez and Chase DeLauter to narrow the gap, and DeLauter trimmed it to 5-4 with an RBI groundout in the eighth.<\/p>\n<p>The Twins improved to 7-20 in their last 27 one-run games against Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p>Up next<\/p>\n<p>Twins: Begin a three-game series at home against the Miami Marlins on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>Guardians: LHP Joey Cantillo (2-1, 3.43 ERA) starts Monday night against the Los Angeles Angels in the opener of a three-game set.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>AP MLB: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;https&quot;}\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/mlb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CLEVELAND (AP) \u2014 Kody Clemens had three hits and Kendry Rojas earned his first major league win with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":695594,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[2380],"tags":[4992,5,6199,1391,22912,135,51,2565,6920,2078,538,1270,865,3541,26513,461,56,58,60,4,408,860,4131,59966],"class_list":{"0":"post-695593","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cleveland-guardians","8":"tag-austin-martin","9":"tag-baseball","10":"tag-brayan-rocchio","11":"tag-brooks-lee","12":"tag-chase-delauter","13":"tag-cleveland","14":"tag-cleveland-guardians","15":"tag-clevelandguardians","16":"tag-fifth-inning","17":"tag-gavin-williams","18":"tag-guardians","19":"tag-joey-cantillo","20":"tag-jose-ramirez","21":"tag-josh-bell","22":"tag-kendry-rojas","23":"tag-kody-clemens","24":"tag-los-angeles-angels","25":"tag-miami-marlins","26":"tag-minnesota-twins","27":"tag-mlb","28":"tag-royce-lewis","29":"tag-stephen-vogt","30":"tag-the-twins","31":"tag-tony-arnerich"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/116552663277826566","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=695593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/695593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/695594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=695593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=695593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=695593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}